Blue Force Tracking

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The Blue Force Tracking system consists of a computer, satellite antenna and Global Positioning System receiver. The system displays the location of the host vehicle on the computer's terrain-map display along with other platforms in their respective locations. BFT can also be used to send and receive text messages. and Blue Force Tracking has a mechanism for reporting the locations of enemy forces, and other battlefield conditions, Users will be Army, Marines,Air Force and United Kingdom but Marines primarily use the Mobile Data Automated Communications system to provide situational awareness but installed more than 200 BFT systems so Marine locations would be visible in Army and United Kingdom command centers, Work has begun on plans to reach the level of nearly 40,000 tracking systems in the Army within four years.

A Blue Force Tracking technology is system called Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below, or FBCB2. The system continually transmits their actual locations over the FBCB2 network. It then monitors the location and progress of friendly forces and sends those specific coordinates to a central location called the Army tactical operations center. There the data is consolidated into a common picture and sent back out to units, "This near real-time process gives warfighters an integrated picture of the location of friendly troops"

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